From all accounts that we hear of the so-called rush between '87 and '88, in the 'Port last Monday night. the affair, from a belligerent point of view, was a ridiculous failure. The sentiment in each of the classes was strongly against a rush, and most of the men went home peaceably as soon as the procession disbanded. Some, however, who lingered behind were precipitated into a fray by the bulldozing efforts of certain hilarious upper-classmen. The combat, when once begun, was marked by a commendable willingness on each side to cease hostilities. On the whole we think the participants in this rush deserve the thanks of the college. They treated us to the spectacle of a hundred men reluctantly fighting with one another in a contest in which each party was ashamed of its cause, and by this exhibition they have effectually killed off the last of the juvenile customs which remain to us from the old provincial Harvard.

The petition for a reduction in the number of forensics has been signed by a very large number of seniors and juniors and will be handed at once to the gentleman who has charge of the forensic department. We would like to point out to him the advantage of an early action upon the petition. In just a week from today the first forensic will be due and we think the total number of forensics for the year should be definitely decided upon before that date. Many men would modify their choice of their first subject if they were sure that only three or four more subjects would have to be prepared by them. If, however, a large number of subjects with which they are more or less familiar has to be reserved for the examination, a comparatively unfamiliar subject will have to be chosen for the first forensic. For these reasons it would seem well for the instructor in forensics to decide as soon as possible upon the advisability of granting or refusing the petition which evidently has the good will of a great majority of the men concerned.